Ohhh, that is SO going in my Live Journal
This evening on my return home from lovely evening of dinner and Trivial Pursuit with colleagues at Lulu's house, I joined the conversation at the dinner party table with my Mum and her friends.
Within 20 minutes, what seemed like a healthy and challenging debate between Rob, a 50-something Aussie-battler type, and myself, over the theory that the perpetrators of the incidents of 9/11 were in fact the evil regime of daemons from a parallel existence who are clearly pulling the strings in the US Government Administration, turned into a yelling match in which only one person was yelling while others tried to calm him down quietly and without raised voices.
He wasn't yelling at me though, he was yelling at his wife who was interjecting with comments that were more along my line of argument. It was quite disturbing actually, to hear a man who previously always seemed quite calm and well-spoken, to yell at the top of his lungs that he's sick of these "bullshit and senseless greenie opinions and conspiracy theories on 9/11".
The climax was when he left the room and could be heard in the kitchen yelling "AMERICANS KILLING OTHER AMERICANS. WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT, IT'S FUCKING RUBBISH."
Most memorable fact from tonight's Trivial Pursuit match: Every 13.5 seconds a gun is purchased in the United States.
Gute nacht.
Within 20 minutes, what seemed like a healthy and challenging debate between Rob, a 50-something Aussie-battler type, and myself, over the theory that the perpetrators of the incidents of 9/11 were in fact the evil regime of daemons from a parallel existence who are clearly pulling the strings in the US Government Administration, turned into a yelling match in which only one person was yelling while others tried to calm him down quietly and without raised voices.
He wasn't yelling at me though, he was yelling at his wife who was interjecting with comments that were more along my line of argument. It was quite disturbing actually, to hear a man who previously always seemed quite calm and well-spoken, to yell at the top of his lungs that he's sick of these "bullshit and senseless greenie opinions and conspiracy theories on 9/11".
The climax was when he left the room and could be heard in the kitchen yelling "AMERICANS KILLING OTHER AMERICANS. WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT, IT'S FUCKING RUBBISH."
Most memorable fact from tonight's Trivial Pursuit match: Every 13.5 seconds a gun is purchased in the United States.
Gute nacht.